Olympia: Disasters From: rcb@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com (Robert Christopher Butchko) Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 00:00:00 +0000 I read these statements complaining about how new players will be helped if huge bands of savages or beasts gather in force sufficient to tear down ancient castles. I say, "sure." What would new players say when one of these things land on their doorstep? "I just got big enough to make a castle and found a place for it and now it's all farpotchkeit." What would they say when such a stack attacks one of the ancient ones and fails? It's gonna happen. Some folks have _strong_ defenses. It can't be aimed only at the old and it can't be big enough... ...Unless we're _really_ talking Acts of God (Atnerks Division). Even then, it's got to rain on the just and the unjust equally. What do people think about big-scale urban renewal: floods, volcanoes, earthquakes, fires, martian landings, Ross Perot and all that? It happens now, to our temples and mines, but what about big, unavoidable upsets, like half of provinia dropping into the sea, floods clearing eastern Camaris, and firestorms sweeping Atnos? (No volcanoes in Western Drucartan, thank you) What about big benign changes, like Atlantis rising out of the sea complete with new locations, or a land bridge forming between ossicus and (somewhere; ran out of names)? I think there should, maybe, be some warnings ("Underground rumblings are heard.") but nothing specific enough to demarcate safe and unsafe. I think that certain cities (that is, castle sites) be reported as being in a flood plain, a volcanic site, a fault zone, or an area of bad cable-tv reception. Then, every so often, Bastrestric, Dogmatix, and fifteen thousand new nobles are dropped into the center of the earth, with one noble point wafting out of the earth's core. No more Gaulish village, no more chateau Olympique. And we all scramble to seize an advantage. Whaddaya think? -cb My opinions are my own, and are not the opinions of the Lords of Revelstone if you disagree with them. Referenced By Up